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Greetings,

Classes and workshops have been uploaded to our calendar and the schedule is pretty jam packed full. We are hosting our usual round of standard and Latin ballroom classes as well as some fun, social dance workshops.

You can access our calendar here or

you can access classes by level here or

See our listing of February classes & workshops: here

All in all we feel there is something for everyone and we hope you can find your something with your club, the Victoria Ballroom Dance Society.

Thank you,
Classes & Standards Committee

Spring classes are up! You can find them listed by level here.

Monday’s Intermediate and Friday’s Pre-Bronze/Bronze classes with Liz at CUC will continue. We have added a Pre-Bronze class on Mondays for Intermediate students who are ready to move up. Gold+ Foxtrot and Rumba classes with Victor return but we have moved them to Thursdays in the Dance Studio at CUC. The Newcomer classes with Victor have been combined into a single class on Saturdays at CHR.

We are hosting Intro to Ballroom Workshops on Thursday evenings with Victor in the Dance Studio at CUC before the Gold+ classes get rolling. We are also hosting Workshops with Victor geared towards Newcomers teaching Quickstep, West Coast Swing and Salsa. Those will be held at CUC and CHR. As well, we have invited Adam to teach a Latin Technique and Styling workshop set to run for four weeks and Saturdays at CHR.

We hope that everyone can find something is this line-up that will appeal to them.

As always, if you have any questions, please email classes@vbds.org

Happy Dancing,

Michael Kittel

As you have probably heard by now, the current PHO mandating indoor masking for most activities, has been lifted effective March 11, 2022. In anticipation of this, your Board of Directors discussed the club policy at last nights monthly meeting. The Board unanimously agreed that club policy should reflect current PHO guidelines in effect.

Venues we rent, can set their own policy. I have contacted, CHRC, CUC, ROWI and GUC. So far CHRC and ROWI have responded and their policy is to follow the PHO guidelines. Therefore, masking is no longer required during Saturday classes, Wednesday or Sunday practices at Cedar Hill Rec Centre or Thursday practices at Royal Oak Women’s Hall.

As I hear back from the other venues I will update this post.

We ask everybody to be respectful of the personal choice other members make regarding masking or not.

Question or concerns, please email: president@vbds.org

Thank you, Michael Kittel

Quite a day for us dancers. The hoped for lifting of capacity limits for our practices happened but the big news is that after nearly two years, social dancing is allowed.

No more capacity limits means we don’t have to encourage pre-registration but, we still need to take attendance per our Covid Safety Plan agreement with each venue. To make less work for our volunteers, we would really appreciate it if you did continue to register for practices.

On the social dancing side, my hope is that we can organize something asap. Historically most of the club dances were held at Les Passmore Centre near Tillicum Mall. I will contact them to see if, with the lifting of most social restrictions, they will allow us back. Other venues have included Sannich Commonwealth and Cedar Hill Rec Centre. Saturday nights at Cedar Hill are unavailable until March 26th at the earliest.

As you know, I’ve harped on the need for volunteers and hosting a social dance requires volunteers as well. We have all the accessories but we need people to organize it, set it up and tear it down. Dance committee volunteers and day-of dance volunteers are needed. Please email: admin@vbds.org

Thank you,
Michael Kittel